The discovery in 1998 that the Universe is expanding faster over time shook the foundations of cosmology. This finding challenged deep-seated assumptions about how space behaves on the grandest scales ...

Pioneer of general relativity and gravitational-wave theories saw her work confirmed by observations 65 years later.

On May 29, 1919, a total solar eclipse helped to prove Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Einstein's theory ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum ...

The Physics of Gravity: Einstein vs. Quantum Gravity General relativity describes gravity as spacetime curvature but conflicts with quantum mechanics at black hole singularities. Loop quantum gravity ...

In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was ...

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...

At Utah State University, researchers are using a radical idea known as the holographic principle to bridge the gap. By ...

Albert Einstein improved Mach's Principle and came out with his famous Theory of General Relativity. However, he failed to ...